The Afternoon Read: Friday, December 1, 2006

Sorry again for the delay. Here’s a very late and severely abbreviated Morning Read.

Iowa Democrats start the chatter that Hillary will back out of the race if Barack Obama jumps in: something Hillaryland dismisses.

In National Review Online, Rich Lowry explains “The genius of Obama is that he has a pure liberal voting record — a 100 percent rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action in 2005 — at the same time he appeals to independents and avoids seeming noxiously partisan.”